WEBVTT ED.HE TELLS US THE TWO WERE SIMPLYCLEANING UP OUT HERE WHEN THEYFIRED ON SIMRANJIT.A GROUP OF MEN STANDS TOGETHERAND EMBRACES FOLLOWING THE DEATHOF 20-YEAR-OLD SIMRANJIT SINGH.THE OWNER OF NEARBY GK DISCOUNTLIQUOR HEARD THE GUNSHOTS JUSTBEFORE 10:30 LAST NIGHT.>> I WAS THERE, LIKE, 10:00,AROUND 10:15, 10:10, LIKE THAT.SO, I HEARD THAT SHOT, MAYBE,SIX, SEVEN TIMES.MAX: BEFORE THE SHOOTING,SIMARNJIT'S COWORKER, WHO ASKEDNOT TO BE ON CAMERA, SAYS HE WASASSAULTED BY A GROUP OF MENWHILE DOING SOME OUTSIDECLEANING.THE GROUP, DESCRIBED AS DRINKINGALCOHOL AND REFUSING TO LEAVETHE PARKING LOT.AFTER BEING PUNCHED IN THE FACE,THE COWORKER RAN INSIDE TO CALL911, WHEN HE TELLS US HE HEARDTHE SHOTS THAT KILLED SIMRANJIT, WHO WAS TAKING BOXES TO THETRASH.>> HE WAS SHOT, LIKE SIX TIMES.RIGHT THERE.MAX: SIMRANJIT, A YOUNG MAN,DESCRIBED AS COOL, FRIENDLY, ANDHELPFUL.>> HE WAS A VERY NICE GUY.I'M CRYING FOR HIM.MAX: THE GAS STATION'S OWNER,VISIBLY SHAKEN BY SIMRANJIT'SDEATH, DESCRIBED HIM AS A HARDWORKER, AN EMPLOYEE OF MORE THANA YEAR, SOMEONE TAKING CLASSESAT AMERICAN RIVER COLLEGE BY DAYAND WORKING AT THE GAS STATIONBY NIGHT.HE, TOO, COULD NOT GO ON CAMERA,TOO UPSET BY WHAT HAPPENED HERELAST NIGHT.>> THERE WAS A LOT OF POLICEOFFICERS DRIVING AROUND THEPARKING LOT AND ALL THROUGHOUTTHIS PLACE.MAX: LAST NIGHT'S SCENE COULDLEAD TO CHANGES FOR SOMEBUSINESS OWNERS, WHO SAYINTERIOR CAMERAS MAY NOT BEENOUGH RIGHT NOW.>> I'M SCARED.MAX: THE STATION'S OWNER SAIDSIMRANJIT LEAVES BEHIND THREESISTERS.HE WOULD HAVE TURNED 21 IN

Detectives are investigating Wednesday morning after a 20-year-old gas station clerk was shot to death by a group of men at a Chevron in south Sacramento, sheriff's deputies said.

The incident began just before 10:30 p.m. Tuesday when a gas station employee was cleaning the Chevron's parking lot in the 8400 block of Florin Road.

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The employee had an argument with two to three men who were loitering in the parking lot, and one of the men physically assaulted the employee, Sacramento County sheriff's investigators said.

The employee went inside the store to call 911 about the assault. That's when his coworker, identified as Simranjit Singh, 20, of Elk Grove, went outside the store, and the same men walked up to him. One of the men pulled out a handgun and fired several shots at Singh, killing him, deputies said.

The employee assaulted by the group spoke with KCRA 3 News Wednesday afternoon and asked not to be identified.

He said Singh was throwing away boxes when he was shot for no reason.

He added that the men deputies are looking for were brash and confronted him while cleaning near their car.

While he was inside dialing 911 after being punched in the face, he heard the gunshots that killed Singh.

"I was there, like, 10 o'clock, around 10:15, 10:10, like that. So, I heard that shot, like maybe, six, seven times," said Majur Kaler, the owner of GK Discount Liquor, which is located next door.

"He was a very nice guy. I'm crying for him," said Kaler.

The gas station's owner said Singh was an employee of more than a year and was a student at American River College during the day.

He leaves behind three sisters, the gas station owner said.

The owner added that surveillance video from the Chevron provides a clear picture of the shooting.

The men were described only as Hispanic. They left the gas station in a light-colored compact car going south of Florin-Perkins Road, officers said.

Anyone with information about the homicide is asked to call the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department at 916-874-5115.